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The Task Force for Reconstruction and Community Service (TFRCS) was formed by President John Waterbury during summer 2006 in response to the war on Lebanon. It focuses on potential engagement of the University in public service projects and seeks to integrate it into AUB’s mission and objectives.

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AUB hosts multi-stakeholder meeting for post-war reconstruction of the south

Opening Ceremony: AUB will look beyond its borders

The American University of Beirut in collaboration with the United Nations Habitat program organized on Oct 18 a consultative meeting for municipal, governmental and non-governmental groups active in the south in order to discuss how to enhance the post-war reconstruction effort.
The meeting was meant to address all aspects of a new two-year project called "Good Governance for Enhanced Post-War Reconstruction,"

AUB plans to become more involved in the betterment of its neighborhood, in order to preserve the diversity that Ras Beirut is known for and to help develop the neighborhood's cultural and intellectual life. AUB President John Waterbury made these remarks during the annual Opening Ceremony that marks the beginning of the new academic year, before a packed Assembly Hall on Oct 1.

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University Community Spearheads Nahr El-Bared Relief Campaign

Volunteers at CCCL learn about cancer and patient care

As shelling continued at Nahr El-Bared in early August, children in the refugee camp at Bourj Al-Barajneh gathered around members of the AUB community to inaugurate a children's activities center. There, they would draw, sing, and play soccer as they waited for the fighting around their neighborhoods to stop.

Fifty new volunteers at the Children Cancer Center of Lebanon (CCCL) attended a one day workshop on October 11 to learn more about cancer and the proper ways to handle patients afflicted with it.
This workshop, which took place in SB 101 of the medical center, will be held by CCCL once every three months this year.